Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth Louis De Paor these poems unsettle the boundaries

these poems unsettle the boundaries between past and present

Frank O’Hara

writing in the 8th century

including the corrected 2023 text of At Raucous Purposeful (2022)

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth Louis De Paor these poems unsettle the boundariesLydia Unsworth's Arthropod bursts open with 'Starlight Express', a long prose poem about protection and harm, containing cannibal flowers, lecherous men, and family dynamics as constellatory and atomised as the poem. Like Selima Hill, Will Harris and Caroline Bird, Unsworth's images and associations are seductive with crystallised mystery 'Knowing is holding a field in your palm'. At its dense core, the collection orbits a divorce and single